The multi-trillion dollar asset securitization market continues to have unresolved issues in the aftermath of the financial crisis, including how the assets are accounted for, and the credit risk ...

Policy makers and lawmakers are tossing this notion of “risk retention” around as if it were a magic pill, but it could be a fatal potion for any future funding of essential consumer and commercial ...

The future of SBA lending will depend on the systems that keep capital flowing through the economy. Securitization, when ...

NEW YORK, April 30 (Reuters) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board, which sets U.S. accounting rules, is "pretty close" to issuing a new standard on securitization accounting that will affect off ...

Securitizations of consumer loans have rebounded, but whether the business can outlast the government sweeteners that have lured investors back to the market is an open question. If an unsubsidized ...

NEW YORK, Sept 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board on Monday proposed changes to its securitization accounting rules, in a move that could greatly alter the way banks and ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued new standards aimed at fixing the way banks account for securitizations and off-balance-sheet special-purpose entities. Statements No. 166, ...

In a speech given in February, European Central Bank board member Peter Praet declared that he considered the revival of the ABS market essential for the provision of finance to the corporate sector. ...